My first book sets out the challenges and tensions for advocates of the person-centred approach (as developed by Carl Rogers) working within mental health settings, whilst also arguing that psychiatry and mental health care is in desperate need of the humanistic values and practice of this approach. Aimed at a wide audience, including person-centred counsellors and the full range of mental health professions, it sets out to explore complex issues in a clear and accessible manner.
From the foreward
‘…this book is the story of what it has meant for the psychiatrist / person-centred counsellor to remain hopeful and resilient in the face of the ever-deepening crisis that she has experienced in the powerfully drug-orientated world of NHS psychiatry…’ (Professor Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling)
‘This is not a book for the faint-hearted….It is a tough philosophy, confident in its assertion of subjective principles and everything that flows from them, It provides no guarantee of success and no insurance against failure. But it is more inspiring than anything I have read for a very long time.’ (Dr Mike Shooter CBE, former Consultant Psychiatrist and Past President, Royal College of Psychiatrists)